Recipe: Orange Kiss-me Cake

The alternative to boring coffee cake, with vitamin C to boot!

Sweet Ambition

So you might recall from my previous post the mention of a cake project. Well today is the day, well the day it starts anyway. I'm planning to do all my baking tonight, decorating tomorrow and finishing touches the day of the party (saturday). But first I need to get through this shift at work. Wish me luck!

Sophie

Recipe: Green Tea Layer cake

Ingredients:

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 4 teaspoons matcha green tea
• 1 1/4 cups white sugar
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup plain yogurt
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Directions:

1.Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2.Grease and flour 2 - 9 inch round pans.
3.Sift together the all-purpose flour, cake flour, baking soda, salt, and green tea powder; set aside.
3.In a large bowl, beat together sugar, oil, and eggs until smooth. Stir in 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla. Beat in the flour mixture alternately with the yogurt, mixing just until incorporated.
4.Pour batter into prepared pans.
5.Bake in the preheated oven for 30 to 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Cool on wire rack for 30 minutes before turning out of the pans.

Green Tea Frosting:

Ingredients:

• 1 1/4 cups confectioners' sugar
• 2 teaspoons powdered green tea
• 2 tablespoons butter, softened
• 1 (3 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 teaspoons milk

Directions:

1.Sift together confectioners' sugar and green tea powder. 
2.In a medium bowl, combine tea mixture with butter, cream cheese, vanilla and milk. Beat with an electric mixer until smooth. 

Sophie

What kind of counseling is that?

Last semester I took a counseling class. I had a pretty decent professor, she seemed to know what she was talking about. But after some "counseling" advice she gave me, I really had to rethink taking that class and eventually just dropped it.

Not that I'm saying this class isn't useful, it is, but for students with more "traditional" careers in mind.

One of our very first essay assignments was to write about our dream career and how we plan to make that dream a reality. I of course wrote about how I wanted to be a pastry chef, and eventually open my own bakery. I gave her my general plan as to how I would go about that (i.e. What I planned to major in...etc..etc).

My friend who was also taking that class, got hers back with some advice on it, like what classes she should take, schools she should look into, words of encouragement, all that jazz.

But when I got my paper back all It said was "You should try and get on one of those cooking shows."

That's it.

Seriously? What kind of advice is that?

Sophie